Comment by jonathansaad on February 13, 2008 1:41 am
13 feb 08
today i hopw we know how to write a preamble and a cover letter. I also hope we can start sharing thing and putting things together so we can start making out project work. this pbl thing i found at the beginig hard and not worth the money but now i do think it wad worth the money i just dont agree with them picking our groups and the weird work there giving us. I still dont like this 24/7 computer thinga nd some people in the group i dont like but i cant do anything so i have to deal with it and get this project done with already.
Comment by jonathansaad on February 25, 2008 12:45 am
We Are Going
They came in to the little town
A semi-naked band subdued and silent
All that remained of their tribe.
They came here to the place of their old bora ground
Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.
Notice of the estate agent reads: ‘Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’.
Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.
‘We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.
We belong here, we are of the old ways.
We are the corroboree and the bora ground,
We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.
We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.
We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.
We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill
Quick and terrible,
And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.
We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.
We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.
We are nature and the past, all the old ways
Gone now and scattered.
The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
And we are going.’
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Appreciating “We are Going” by Oodgerooo Noonuccal
Read Oodgeroo’s “We are going” (p. 32) and answer these questions on it:
1. Explain why they are “silent and subdued”.
2. How are white men represented? Why?
3. What is a bora ring and explain why it is so central to this poem.
4. Explain their reaction in line 8.
5. Lines 9-17 begin a ‘litany’. What is the effect produced?
6. Comment on the significance of metaphors used in the poem.
7. Comment on the structure and form of this poem.
8. Why does Thunder have a capital letter?
9. Comment on the mood and atmosphere created here.
10. Combine comments on its theme, title and conclusion.
Comment by jonathansaad on February 25, 2008 1:18 am
1. Explain why they are “silent and subdued”.
They are upset that they are now strangers in there own town.
2. How are white men represented? Why?
As ants because theres so many of them and they were all rushing
3. What is a bora ring and explain why it is so central to this poem.
The bora ring is were they used to live and do there rituals as a tribe. it was there land.
4. Explain their reaction in line 8.
They are saying there mind and angry in the way they write and say.
5. Lines 9-17 begin a ‘litany’. What is the effect produced?
The effect is that you they they are one with the land and that there hole life was there.
6. Comment on the significance of metaphors used in the poem.
IT makes the Aboriginals look one with the land and it emphasizes the ordeal they are in
7. Comment on the structure and form of this poem.
It has short verses so they mood of the poem is rushed & angry
8. Why does Thunder have a capital letter? because it is a name that they called a person or land
9. Comment on the mood and atmosphere created here.
The mood is Anger, revenge, sadness and rushed which show how it was then and how the Aboriginals felt.
10. Combine comments on its theme, title and conclusion.
the title suites the poem very well and it ends with the way thing ended in the Aboriginals eyes because they lost there land and the theme is very good for this poem and is a good poem about the aboriginals
Comment by jonathansaad on February 27, 2008 2:05 am
Aboriginal Death Song
Feet of the flying, and fierce
Tops of the sharp-headed spear,
Hard by the thickets that pierce,
Lo! they are nimble and near.
Women are we, and the wives
Strong Arrawatta hath won;
Weary because of our lives,
Sick of the face of the sun.
Koola, our love and our light,
What have they done unto you?
Man of the star-reaching sight,
Dipped in the fire and the dew.
Black-headed snakes in the grass
Struck at the fleet-footed lord—
Still is his voice at the pass,
Soundless his step at the ford.
Far by the forested glen,
Starkly he lies in the rain;
Kings of the council of men
Shout for their leader in vain.
Yea, and the fish-river clear
Never shall blacken below
Spear and the shadow of spear,
Bow and the shadow of bow.
Hunter and climber of trees,
Now doth his tomahawk rust,
(Dread of the cunning wild bees),
Hidden in hillocks of dust.
We, who were followed and bound,
Dashed under foot by the foe,
Sit with our eyes to the ground,
Faint from the brand and the blow.
Dumb with the sorrow that kills,
Sorrow for brother and chief,
Terror of thundering hills,
Having no hope in our grief,
Seeing the fathers are far
Seeking the spoils of the dead
Left on the path of the war,
Matted and mangled and red.
13 feb 08
today i hopw we know how to write a preamble and a cover letter. I also hope we can start sharing thing and putting things together so we can start making out project work. this pbl thing i found at the beginig hard and not worth the money but now i do think it wad worth the money i just dont agree with them picking our groups and the weird work there giving us. I still dont like this 24/7 computer thinga nd some people in the group i dont like but i cant do anything so i have to deal with it and get this project done with already.
WEBSITES
http://www.quamut.com/quamut/grant_writing/page/how_to_write_the_cover_letter.html
BOOKS
RETRO active 2- second edition -stage 5- Australian history- Mureen anderson.Anne low. jeffery conroy. lan keese.- 2005
The stolen generation- vol156-Editor:justin healy- 2001
Indigenous Health-Vol 200- Editor:justin healy-2004
Aboriginal health & Welfare- Vol 129- Editor:justin healy-2000
Aborignal Reconciliation- Vol 234-Editor:justin healy-2006
journal 4
1. the significant thing that happened this week was the sorry speech from Kevin Rudd to the stolen generations.
2. We can use this as suplimentary material because it helps to prove the stolen generations actually happened and how we relate to it now.
3. To start getting my information and setting it out for our preamble and cover letter so we can start getting our draft ready which is due next week
We Are Going
They came in to the little town
A semi-naked band subdued and silent
All that remained of their tribe.
They came here to the place of their old bora ground
Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.
Notice of the estate agent reads: ‘Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’.
Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.
‘We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.
We belong here, we are of the old ways.
We are the corroboree and the bora ground,
We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.
We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.
We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.
We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill
Quick and terrible,
And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.
We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.
We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.
We are nature and the past, all the old ways
Gone now and scattered.
The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
And we are going.’
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Appreciating “We are Going” by Oodgerooo Noonuccal
Read Oodgeroo’s “We are going” (p. 32) and answer these questions on it:
1. Explain why they are “silent and subdued”.
2. How are white men represented? Why?
3. What is a bora ring and explain why it is so central to this poem.
4. Explain their reaction in line 8.
5. Lines 9-17 begin a ‘litany’. What is the effect produced?
6. Comment on the significance of metaphors used in the poem.
7. Comment on the structure and form of this poem.
8. Why does Thunder have a capital letter?
9. Comment on the mood and atmosphere created here.
10. Combine comments on its theme, title and conclusion.
1. Explain why they are “silent and subdued”.
They are upset that they are now strangers in there own town.
2. How are white men represented? Why?
As ants because theres so many of them and they were all rushing
3. What is a bora ring and explain why it is so central to this poem.
The bora ring is were they used to live and do there rituals as a tribe. it was there land.
4. Explain their reaction in line 8.
They are saying there mind and angry in the way they write and say.
5. Lines 9-17 begin a ‘litany’. What is the effect produced?
The effect is that you they they are one with the land and that there hole life was there.
6. Comment on the significance of metaphors used in the poem.
IT makes the Aboriginals look one with the land and it emphasizes the ordeal they are in
7. Comment on the structure and form of this poem.
It has short verses so they mood of the poem is rushed & angry
8. Why does Thunder have a capital letter? because it is a name that they called a person or land
9. Comment on the mood and atmosphere created here.
The mood is Anger, revenge, sadness and rushed which show how it was then and how the Aboriginals felt.
10. Combine comments on its theme, title and conclusion.
the title suites the poem very well and it ends with the way thing ended in the Aboriginals eyes because they lost there land and the theme is very good for this poem and is a good poem about the aboriginals
Aboriginal Death Song
Feet of the flying, and fierce
Tops of the sharp-headed spear,
Hard by the thickets that pierce,
Lo! they are nimble and near.
Women are we, and the wives
Strong Arrawatta hath won;
Weary because of our lives,
Sick of the face of the sun.
Koola, our love and our light,
What have they done unto you?
Man of the star-reaching sight,
Dipped in the fire and the dew.
Black-headed snakes in the grass
Struck at the fleet-footed lord—
Still is his voice at the pass,
Soundless his step at the ford.
Far by the forested glen,
Starkly he lies in the rain;
Kings of the council of men
Shout for their leader in vain.
Yea, and the fish-river clear
Never shall blacken below
Spear and the shadow of spear,
Bow and the shadow of bow.
Hunter and climber of trees,
Now doth his tomahawk rust,
(Dread of the cunning wild bees),
Hidden in hillocks of dust.
We, who were followed and bound,
Dashed under foot by the foe,
Sit with our eyes to the ground,
Faint from the brand and the blow.
Dumb with the sorrow that kills,
Sorrow for brother and chief,
Terror of thundering hills,
Having no hope in our grief,
Seeing the fathers are far
Seeking the spoils of the dead
Left on the path of the war,
Matted and mangled and red.